Woven fabric



juiy 1927' i J. E. FEFEL WOVEN FABRIC Filed March 25, 1926 I N VEN TOR. (fla /Zn E Fefil Patented July 5, 1927. p

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN u. mean, or nmncnronr, commcrxcur, assmnon. or ONE-HALI 'ro ram .1. nomr, or NEW YORK, n. Y.

WOVEN FABRIC.

Applicationflled l rch as, 1920. Serial No. 01,230.

The present invention relates to improvements in woven fabric, and particularly a narrow ribbon-like fabric, as tape, braid,'or the like. An object of the invention is to provide a fabric which may be roduced with great rapidity, will be relative y strong and close woven, and symmetrical asto strength at each side, and especially to provide a strengthened selvedge at each longltudinal edge.

To this end, it is proposed to provide, in the present embodiment of the invention, a fabric structure in which the warp threads are laid in the usual manner, while the weft threads consist of two threads alternately laid in the sheds of the warp, and interwoven, or knitted, in a manner to forma selvedge of the same strength and structure at each edge.

With the above and other objects in view, an embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanyin drawings, and this embodiment will be diereinafter more fully described with reference thereto, and the invention will be finally pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings i Fig. 1 is a plan view of the fabric, according to the present embodiment of the Invention' Fig. 2 is 'an edge view thereof; and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view, taken along'the line 3'3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the .warp threads 10 are arranged in pairs, as shown, although they may, if desired, be laid singly, or in strands of three or more threads, and the successive sheds of the warp are adapted to enclose the successive pairs of weft threads.

The weft consists of two threads 11 and 12,

successively worked into the fabric from opposite sides, the laying of each thread bein in pairs, that is, each thread is carried bac on itself within a single shed of the warp. The two weft threads are successively laid and looped with each other at opposite edges in symmetrical arrangement at each side. Considering Fig. 1 from the ri lit-hand side, the thread 11 is laid in the she of the warp, is looped at the edge, as at 13, and is carried back on itself in the same shed. The thread 12 is then passed through said 100 13 into the successive shed of the warp, is ooped at the opposite edge, as at 14, and is then at each edge.

passed back on itself in said shed and through the same loop 13. The thread 11 is then carried over, as at 15, and in a similar manner is passed through the loop 14 into the next shed, another loop 13 being formed at the edge, and the thread being carried backon itself and throu h the loop 14 again. The thread 12 is carried over, as at 16, and passed throu h the second loop 13,- the weavng and looplngof the two weft threads bem carried on continuously in this manner. ifilllltfid selvedges are thus formed at each edge by interweaving and looping of the weft threads, and a tape or braid of symmetrical structure is produc'ed which will withstand pulli p lg strains and wear equally e fabricis of ver attract1ve finish, and by providing threa s of differentcolors and textures various ornamental designs and effects may be produced.

I have illustrated and described a preferred and satisfactory embodiment of the invention, but it will be obvious that changes may be made therein within the spirit and scope thereof, as defined in the appended claims.

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A fabric comprising interwoven warp and weft threads, the said weft threads occurring in pairs successively laid from opposite sides, the succeeding pairs of weft threads forming loops on opposite edges of the fabric that encircle the adjacent pairs of weft threads forming a chain of kmtted stitches along opposite edges of the fabric.

2. A fabric comprising interwoven warp and weft threads, the said weft threads occurring in pairs successively laid from opposite sides, the alternate pairs of weft threads looping about the next adjacent pairs of weft threads on opposite edges of the fabric in the form of a chain of knitted stitches that extend along the opposite edges of the fabric.

3. A fabric comprising interwoven warp and weft threads, the weft threads having portions forming a chain of knitted stitches connecting said weft threads along the opposite edges of the fabric, the alternate pairs of weft threads being looped around the successive pairs of weft threads outside the wa threads and within the loop formed by t e weft threads.

a. A faloric comprising interwoven warp and weft threads, the weft threads having looped portions connecting the successive pairs of weft threads along the opposite edges of the fabric, each of the said pairs of weft threads also forming forwardly and rearwardly disposed selvage members on the edges of the fabric, one of said selvage members of each pair connecting with the forward pair of weft threads-and the other of said selvage members connecting with the succeeding pair of weft threads, and forming a chain of knitted stitches outside of the warp threads. 4

5. A fabric comprising interwoven warp and weft threads, the said weft threads 00- curring in pairs successively laid from opposite sides, each pair including a loop laid in each side portion of the fabric, the alter nating pairs of weft threads forming loops on opposite sides of the fabric, a loop of each pair connecting one of each of the adaesaaii fabric and forming loops on the other side of the fabric, the loop connectin one of the pairs of weft threads extending rom one of a second succeeding pair of weft threads and the other loop extending from one of another second succeeding air of weft threads and the-chain of stitc es bein out side the warp threads and within the oops.

7. A fabric comprising interwoven warp and weft threads, the weft threads comprising two threads successively laid from opposite sides in double strands in successive sheds and respectively provided at opposite edges with forwardly extending loop portions embracing the strands of the successive other weft thread.

8. A fabric com risin interwoven warp and weft threads, 1; e we t threads compris- 1ng two threads successively laid from opposite sides in double strands in successive sheds and respectively provided at opposite edges wlth forwardly extending loop portions embracingthe strands of the successive other weft thread, said latter thread having connecting portions extending between said loop-embraced strands outwardly of said 100g) portions.

igned at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, this 24th day of March, A. D. 1926. i

' JOHN E. FEFEL. 

